She Remembered to Smell the Flowers by Moira Sutton

Prompted by Ann Briggs who organises a monthly play day craft group I recently did a "She Art"  online class with Christy Tomlinson.  I must say it was fun and I was delighted when she collaborated with Pink Paislee to bring out a range of new products which arrived in stock this week.  You can find them in our "She Art" section.

'Sing Little Birdie' - by Annette Goatley (Nettyscraftings)

Hi, have to tell you am not best pleased with my alteration of this Wooden Pencil Box.  But sometimes it doesn't always work out as planned does it...........boo hoo

Products used:  Pencil Box  Viva Croco Crackling  Acrylic Paint, Charms and stamps.

But like the Bird in the picture am going to sing a Happy Tune because I can't whistle........totally rubbish at that.........lol and move on to the next project and hope I can do better...........

Take care of yourselves and hope to see you soon. Hugs Annette x

Forget Me Not - Canvas By Moira Sutton

There are now a great selection of canvases available from the shop. One of them has been used for this lovely canvas by Moira.
Claudine Hellmuth paints have been used for the background which has been stamped and texture has been added with gilding flakes and Tim Holtz Tissue tape.
The little bird is a hand made embellishment and it has been created using Pardo clay with a sugar craft mould,  after baking it has been coloured with Inka Gold paints.

Songbird Designed by Paula Tidman

Inspired by Sam's altered altoid tins, I thought I would make my husband an altered tin. He plays the mandolin and is always misplacing his plectrums LOL, this little tin is the ideal size to store them in. I bought two of these tiny mint tins from Aldi for just over a £1.

I started by giving the tin a coat of gesso. Then two coats of cream matt emulsion.  I then stamped the cute little birds from Prima Songbird and the text stamp from Artist outpost Bluebird plate, in archival ink on the sides and the bottom of the tin. I painted the stamped images with distress inks in Barn door, Dusty concord, spiced marmalade and broken china. Then I buffed more broken china all around the edges.

I used a gold leafing pen around the top edge of the tin and finished with a coat of varnish.

A quick reminder about the current Happy Daze Challenge which  you still have time to enter. It is "March to your own tune" So anything with a musical theme.  One lucky winner will be drawn at random to win a  £15 voucher and free P&P to spend in the Happy Daze shop. Maximum of 3 entries per person & you must use at least one product which can be purchased in the Happy Daze shop.

• You can enter by blogging you address to the linky widget here, 
• emailing your picture to info@happy-daze.net
• uploading your photo to their facebook page

  

Dance by Samantha Read

Whoo hoo! Here in the UK we set our clocks to British Summer Time and that makes me feel like dancing!

I've made a similar piece to my last which was Sing as I will display them together as a pair. I did try to make it the same but different. Sing has quite happy colours whereas Dance is a little bit more spooky.

Again I covered the whole thing with beeswax and embedded some musical note sequins and this time some Bedazzles.

I used:

Lost Coast Designs, Loopy Border

Stampotique, Great Moon
Bedazzles, Waltz
Lost Coast Designs, Angel In Disguise

Crafters Workshop, Cherry Blossom Template

Journaling Tickets

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints: Purple Palette and Sky Blue and 

Black Archival Inkpad

Wishing you a happy day, Sam xxx

"Sing" chunky ATC by Julie Dandy

This is my first attempt at a chunky ATC so I hope you like it LOL

I used Artistic Outpoost Serenity stamp set as this months Happy Daze challenge is Music themed items.

I started by colouring the short sides with distress stain and then glued on some lace with multi matte medium.
When dry I added some distress stickles to the lace to give a more vintage aged feel to it.

I drilled tiny holes in the bottom and glued on my feet - I used beads and bead caps on a head pin.

I coloured my Pink Paislee chipboard letters with distress stain and glued them on to a piece of acetate.
When dry I cut the acetate around the letters and added a long piece with DST to make a dangler - no idea what the techy term is sorry LOL :D
I glued it on to the back of my block which was then covered with patterned paper.

I stamped my Artistic Outpost image with coffee archival ink on to a piece of Tim Holtz patterned paper, distressed the edges and glued on to the front of my block.

I coloured my ribbon with the distress stain so that it matched my piece and tied around the edge of the block.

I then bent a metal filigree corner to the shape of my block and glued it down with the matte medium.

I have a feeling these fabby chunky ATC's may become an addiction LOL :D

Hugs'n'snogs,
Julie xx

Cat Who Got The Cream - Canvas By Moira Sutton

This canvas has used one of the new size canvases that are now available in the shop.
The Background has been done by using Texture Paste through the  Crafters Workshop Harlequin Screen.
The background was then painted with Claudine Hellmuth paints.
It has been embellished with a large Antique bronze Filigree Corner.